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i7 selloffs

I only upgraded my i7 920 because an opportunity arose to sell it for pretty much what I paid for it as the core of a system build. However I'm glad I upgraded since I do HD video editing and it eats CPU cycles for breakfast and still shouts for more. If I didnt do NLE I probably wouldn't have bothered.
 
Still sticking with my 920s in both my machines. The gaming machine has a 4870X2 so won't be needing an upgrade too soon. Will see what the new 7000 series from ATI/AMD bring. The other machine has a 4650, so eventually that will need upgrading and I am looking at the 6770 to replace it.

But, like many here, pointless changing from i7 920 to a Sandybridge.
 
the 920 are good CPU i have mine overclocked and can run most games my gpu which is the gtx580 is a awsome card as well i dont think i need to upgrade for al ong trime as well.
 
You guys who dont see the point in selling the old 920/930s, You realise selling the motherboard and Processor generally gets you close to the money it costs for an I7 2600k + Motherboard? Maybe around £40-£50 difference, depending on the motherboard you decide on
 
Upgraded from an E6850 @ 3.00 to an i7 920 @ 4.00 for bad company 2.
Got to love those bundle deals. Can't see me changing the 920 unless something goes wrong with it. Will be a while yet before its causing any bottlenecks.
 
Keeping my 920 until the mobo dies. If I can get X58 at that point in time, I will just buy a replacement mobo and keep on trucking.

i7 was and still is one of the best cpus around imo for the money. No point moving to sandybridge if I'm already on the 1366 platform, for no benefit other than epeen and a few degrees of heat off.
 
wannabedamned said:
You guys who dont see the point in selling the old 920/930s, You realise selling the motherboard and Processor generally gets you close to the money it costs for an I7 2600k + Motherboard? Maybe around £40-£50 difference, depending on the motherboard you decide on
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Who buys old i7 for the same price as the new sandy setup? :confused:
 
wannabedamned said:
You guys who dont see the point in selling the old 920/930s, You realise selling the motherboard and Processor generally gets you close to the money it costs for an I7 2600k + Motherboard? Maybe around £40-£50 difference, depending on the motherboard you decide on
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Unfortunately 920/30's are only fetching about £100.00 now, motherboards £50-70.00, dependent on model and features. You may get slightly more at auction than say members market on here. An i7 2600k oem will set you back about £245.00 ono, then you have to factor in the additional cost of a motherboard and ram.
 
That'll teach me, I was going off a friends sale, Just asked him what he sold. It was the Asus rampage II extreme and a 930 I didnt realise how high end his motherboard was. He got £260 for both. Which is where my initial statement came from, obviously a lot of people dont have boards worth that much in resale though.
 
Its a good move to sell i did it from 930i7 to 2600k! Am am thinking of doing it again to a bulldozer! In the end u have a better system with a bit on money left over for a ssd etc!
 
wannabedamned said:
That'll teach me, I was going off a friends sale, Just asked him what he sold. It was the Asus rampage II extreme and a 930 I didnt realise how high end his motherboard was. He got £260 for both. Which is where my initial statement came from, obviously a lot of people dont have boards worth that much in resale though.
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Yep, theyve taken an astronomical price hit. The cpu, board and ram in my sig cost £580.00 two years ago, last week i bought a 930, p6 x58de and 6gb of corsair ram for £200.00.
 
If I was inclined to upgrade to i7 3930K I'd sell my i7 950, before the resale price drops even more. However, I'm not inclined to do so. I can see this platform taking another GPU generation or three before I upgrade.

I'm not really noticing much bottlenecking at stock, and my GTX260s don't even need to be SLIed for most of my games I play currently. I was even looking at a GTX470 to replace the two cards, as I'm getting BF3 for Christmas but it never even popped into my head that an i7-950 at stock would hold me back...because it won't.
 
Vir said:
I'm not planning to sell my i7, I am wondering though how they will hold up in Battlefield 3, or how do you say, how they scale and compare to other CPU's....
I also wonder how my GTX480 will hold up in BF3...
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Why would the GTX480 not hold up well for BF3? There's still only one GPU that's faster (GTX580) and that's not by much!
 
amigafan2003 said:
not chopping my my i7 - not when it clocks like this :-)

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i7 920 @ 4.5ghz || 2x5870 in CF || Gigabyte UD5 mobo || 6gb OCZ Reaper HPC 12800 || 300gb VelociRaptor, 1tb Spinpoint F3, 2x500gb Spinpoint F1 || Lian_Li V2000b Case || Custom WC (XSPC 750 v2 res/pump, XSSPC 240 rad, Swiftech Apogee GTZ SE WB).
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Is that your 24/7 set up?
 
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